Player's Lounge: 1 Down, 3 to Go

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Danny mccraye is up in here. Like that's a great instrot with you could like leave with the bears of it. Let me let me tell you something. I wouldn't give a damn if it's the Los Angeles Juggernauts, And I'll be hey if you henck Ma Harrison with the Los Angeles Juggernauts, you've better call their name. By whatever. Boys all good. We're gonna get to your other boys in a minute. But across from me, my man, BC, it's

in the place that b former Jacksonville Jaguar Dallas. Every former Dallas cowboy buried Church forty two is up in here. And guys, look, before we get to business at per normal, we always check out how's everybody, whether the cowboys victory last night had something to do with how the spirit that you're feeling right now? But d Mac, I'm gonna start with you. I'm gonna say this guy for lack, I don't want to check him too. But what about you, brother,

how are you feeling today? I feel good, man, I feel good. Cowboys one Joe Burrow gott a dog man. Wasn't it something? Yeah? You know what I'm saying. Like I said, we found a school so little girl will be going to school. We got once in a while, you know, somebody go home early. I could chill. So I'm happy. I'm happy. I got no that. That's when the Lord just smiling on you, when you got stuff like that going on in your life. Yes, uh, yes, suh,

Burry Church. If I knew your middle name, I call you by your middle name, your name Barry Xavier Church. That what's going on? Church? Nah? Man, they like many outside of football things amazing. You know, we're doing great and all that good stuff. But you know, we got some things to discuss. And uh, wasn't a good weekend for your boy. Wasn't my pie. We'll talk about it, but it wasn't a good weekend for your boy. You made a left. You made a left on your pits.

Should have made a right. Yeah. Man, the next thing you know, I'm here with his heart. It was Man. We all fall victims of that sometime. But it's all right. Man. This is a redemptive podcast. So by the end of this podcast, your spirit gonna be back up here. Back. You're gonna we're gonna b lip you back up brothers, because that's what brothers do for one another. He's gonna he's gonna try to knock your spirit down. I know, but you know I can't ready for that. I can't.

I can't ready already stop up. I'm I don't understand. I come armor it up every day. D mac hey. But but d mac mac let's let's let's get down to what we really need to talk about. Last night in Tampa Bay. Unless you were sleeping under a rock, the Dallas Cowboys went to Tampa Bay and dominate it. Yeah. I was absolutely dominated the Tampa Bay Bucks in a

wild card game. And I think for all of the talk they've gone went into this week about the Cowboys not winning the playoff game on the road for thirty years and go for a bid playing in blue jerseys and bad the blue jerseys, but going on the road winning a playoff game, Mike McCarthy's job is in the ether. They're just offering him up, you know, just offering him up, right, Uh, Dak Prescott's legacy, everything is is we're talking about Michael

Parson's not worth it. All of these things going into this week, man just made it feel as though make Cowboy Nation feel as though this team really didn't have a chance. But the Cowboys out off the bus came through Raymond James Stadium and beat the brakes in the undercarriage Tom Brady and the Temple Bay Bucks. Danny mccraie, I'm gonna let you take this because my guy over here got explaining the dude, Lucy, I want him to explain what happened yesterday? D mac what was your estimation?

What did you what did you think about the offense and explosion? Let me tell you something, all right, as I've been saying the entire year. Okay, Dak Prescott plays his best when the team is running the ball and playing defense. What do we do one hundred twenty yards rushing last night? Defense? Shutting Tom Brady out? All right? And and who guess who else became a part of

the running game? Final league, Dak Prescott. When you look around the league and you see quarterbacks on the successful right now, there are mobile quarterbacks, not just running quarterbacks like Lamar who can four five and four four and all that stuff. They didn't extend plays and they make you pay for it when you ramp coverage just like two man or covered one. When all the defensive backs have their back to a quarterback, he could take off for tie Bowls. We're gonna talk about tie bows here

in a minute. Took but Tid Boles bought a lot of pressure. He bought a lot of pressure that Dak Prescott maneuvered around the pressure and ran for those first down. Those seven runs, half of those were to change for the change. They listen. He played a lot of zone and he bought a lot of pressure. And they figured it, and they and they knew everything. So so whatever light switch came on, because I'm not gonna let you send an act like the light switch was was on the

whole season. Whatever light switch came on, and Dak for the last five weeks of the season till yesterday, lead that on because that's that's not the Dak Prescott we had been seeing outside of the Philly game. We had been seeing some totally different and we were all sitting here saying, we know you better than this, bro, We know you better than this. That's why we are so down on it, because we're like, not what, like, what are you giving us? We know exactly what you can do.

And yesterday he returned back to Dak Prescott and and I will tell you this, if he continues to use his legs to not only extend plays, but to get first downs. That makes us even more dangerous on offense, and I think that will help us going into next week. To us, I'm sure we'll we'll get into but yeah, I'm hyping man defense, offense, everything so that they ain't gonna kick her. But yeah, we're gonna get that too. Weet, We're gonna get that too. But Barrett Church for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

you did pick Tampa Bay. I did, and a lot of your confidence had to do with that defense as well. You Vita by Hicks, the guys that they had up front, the secondary of the linebackers, all of that. When you saw the Cowboys performance, at what point in the game last night did you go, oh, oh, oh, oh, they're cooking right now. I would have to say it was probably that second series Man, second series, first series they went three and out. I'm like a you know, my

pictures looking right. But when you're talking about the trenches, man and what that offensive line was able to do for Dak Prescott and this offense, I mean it was amazing. You know, Dak played outstanding and you highlighted it all. He did every he knew what defenses day was in his ball placement was on point. I mean, he wasn't missing out there. But to me, what stood out the most about that offense was that offensive line. I mean,

those guys gave that man time. Outside of that first two plays when Vida Band was getting back there, they gave my man time to do what he ever he wanted to do. And then you talk about the running game, they were able to open up these holes in Tony Pole. They been that let him get out the building. They can't let that man get out the building because he's

proved to me yesterday. He was doing it all season, but he proved to me yesterday not only does he have that speed, but he can run between the tackles, he can break some tackles and fall forward out there. So they can't let that man get out the building. But when you go back to this offense, man, that offensive line did an amazing job out there. Tyla Smith, the young guy Peers before he got injured, was doing his work out there. And beyond is coming back at

the center position. Was huge because it looked like, you know, they were all working as a unit out there. So offensively, they did their thing. I'll give them props to that. But why I picked Tampa Bay was I figured that secondary for the Dallas Cowboys, they would play off. I figured with the injuries they had out there to under you know, the ups and downs, that they had a cornerback number two. You had Xavier Roles coming out of

out of nowhere to play for this team. I figured, all right, they're gonna play off coverage and Tom Brady's just gonna kill him with a thousand cuts. Dan Quinn did the exact opposite, all right, and shout out to Israel mcquama because that point played his butt off at the nickel position. But he pressed those Gays, he got in the face. I'm talking about Mike Evans, god Win, whoever was out there. They had the confidence in their

second by So you're taking a whole second segment, my bad. No, no, no, no, not even go out faster. We're gonna get to the defense all over. But I'm telling you, you just took all of me. I'll wait for the defense to the second segment. But offensively, something they don't know about me that Prescott did his thing. Man, he did this thing. Man, he played outstanding. So I got one more because you said you can't get you can't let Tony Paula get

out of the building. I listen, I'm leaning more towards another guy who you might not be able to let get out of this show. Absolutely think about him in the last few games of the season, and then what what do you look like when Dak was out? And what did he looked like when he was healthy and Dak was back in? This is uh and before I get off the rails, because there's so much I want to talk about with this game. But defensively, Todd bows

to me. When I looked at his game playing, I said, damn, you know, Todd, you're playing Dak like he You know, second year in the league, you talked about specifically him bringing allocating extra men to the line of scrimmage. You knew that he was gonna try and take away the running game. But he stayed with seven eight man boxes his press. He did not adjust from that at all.

He stayed. He lived and died with that. At any point, did you say, especially with the way that Dak was picking them apart in the secondary, did you question his game plan looking at that, because obviously you knew he was gonna do it, but did you say, oh damn it, time to make adjustment. I ain't a lot to you. I was. I was sitting there watch. I say, man, you gotta t bo. You're gonna play someone man to man, like at some point, you just gotta sell out everybody.

Because every time he ran zone, Dak was on him. Cover two, cover three, cover four, any zone that they ran, it was a big time play for Dak Prescott. He read it. He made the right throw, my right decision, and the ball was on point. I'm like, hey man, at some point before I let it, guy do this to me, I'm gonna I'm gonna bring one extra and then we're just gonna play man to man and that's

the way you're gonna have to beat us. And then we lose like that because your guys are better than ours on every snap or more more snaps than that, as much zone coverage as they played, then that's that's the way you lose. We reready get beat anyways, but we just kept seeing them. Hey man, we seen Devin White dropping out to the curl. We've seen guy dropping. I said, man, what is going on? Like what type of he I'm in my mind, I'm like, did he not have the faith in his team who played man

and man versus our guys. And if that's the case, then then okay. But yeah it was. It was a little confused, that's funny. I saw the exact opposite. I was like, his arrogant as hell, he gonna live it down there here. But what do you think about that? I think they they thought about it too much. They were too cute out there. I mean, if you look at it from what they were running the touchdown to cd Land when he was Scott free, why in your in your in your mind would you have your defensive

end I believe his name is try on number nine? Yes, why you got him lined up on the best receiver on the field like cde Land cooking your defensive back, so you're gonna line your defensive end up to play him like the man was lined up at number three. Everybody else was, you know, man and man covers. You could see it. And I just think he got too cute for something. Here. Let me let me dis guys, it's over here. And and Kellen Moore and Dak Prescott

picked that man apart. Like we seen at the first game of the year, it was just nothing where blitzing were coming down. Here, we're gonna play man on the back end and let's go here. He was just doing too much. I'm gonna trick him with this. I'm gonna drop this guy's defensive end over here. But I'm gonna bring this guy man. Just it was he got too

cute for himself, and Dak and Calamura exposed. He's easy throws, too easy throws, no jam off the ball, boom ten yards slant here, ceedee lamb cover to get to get behind the linebacker, boom right on point. With that one, I'm like, he sees it, so now you gotta figure something else out. But to his I'm not gonna say to his credit, But like I said, if I'm watching Dak this entire season, I'm like, I'm going into the game saying, oh, this is this is this is our

path to success. He reading this stuff right during the season. We don't know what's wrong with him. He can't figure it out, So let's do what these other teams did. And like I said, the light switch came on. Where the way Dak Prescott played last night, it was obvious that he was playing like there was no tomorrow. Yeah,

not sliding, diving over guys. He slid one time, I think at the end of the game, like in the second half, but other than that, he was the old Dac like almost running over guys, doing whatever he had to do to get to get the score to come that like, hey, man, follow me, played like me if your quarterback is gonna put it on the line and get out there and try to block guys. You know what I'm saying in the running game down there in the red zone that you guys should be able to

give one hundred percent as well. And I think the team followed him. But that's the type of that. That's the forty million dollars Dak Prescott like, you gotta do both, man. You gotta use your legs and you gotta be on your p's and hughes. And I think you know, another total game from that, So shout out to him. No, that's and I appreciate what you said prior to that about him not looking his best in the previous weeks because we saw a lot of bone head throws and

things that we questioned decision making things. Last night, was Dak being deliberate about everything that he did on the field and he made it a point to not turn the ball over. Not can cannot turn to the ball security be a decision, Yeah you know, but he tried. He tried, deep shout. I was like, bro, but that was that was gambling at that point in the game. But I love what you're what you're talking about if this is playing not playing with reckless, abandoned, but also

understanding that these yards count. And that's why we need NEWI Scruggs in here talking about inches and all of that stuff that would this would be a perfect segue for that, by the way, but you saw him battling to that degree. But a guy that I want to talk about that you mentioned, Dalton Sholtz. Dalton Shots yesterday showed you why this team was willing to tag him

and give him that money. All right, any other any other situation, right, maybe you you trade a guy, cut a guy, whatever it is, especially if you feel like you got something better behind him. But Dalton Shots is seriously right now playing himself, if not here somewhere else, playing playing for a serious payday. He is wide open and especially he should have had three touchdowns. I know, did y'all see on the one where Dak ran it in Dalton Schultz was right there, like literally why open.

Nobody the linebackers, nobody lost him, and Dak just didn't throw it to him. He ran it in himself because that whole edge was open. But just talk about Shultz in his influence on these games. Look, I feel like, you know, this guy, he stepped this game up leaps and bounds. Now when we talk about earlier in the season, he was also playing with Cooper Rush, which you know, he was hurt, so he ain't gonna have his his you know, full potential out there. But with the return

of Dak Prescott, you see, this guy's incredibly smart. In my opinion, that's what sticks out most about him to me. Now it's your athletic ability, his dynamicness, none at all that He's just unbelievably smart. He understands zone concepts. Where's the weakness going to be at? Let me sit down here. Like you see a lot of the times these young wide receivers, young tight ends, when they're doing crossing routes, they're just running right into the next zone. Ain't even

looking to see you see this guy he's running. Oh, there's a there's a defender in front of me. Let me sit down here, sit right here in this hole, get the cash, give you five, give you ten y'alls. He was able to do that. I mean, this guy, he's become a security blanket. I'm not gonna sit here and say, you know, he's a top three tight end out there as far as being dynamic, can do all these different things. But the guy's extremely extremely solid out there,

and you right here. He made itself a lot of money whether he's here or somewhere else. In the off season, the guys played himself into a heck of a contract. Yeah, I gotta I gotta say, you know, based off what I said earlier in the season where it was like, hey man, you can't line him up in number one, probably not number two because he's probably not gonna be able to get open. Like I was wrong, Yeah, you can line him about that. I think. I think depending

on whatever. Like you, he's not a guy just gonna always be in the core. I think you can line him up if a team's run his own he can run his route from number one. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, and be able to do that. He's not just the end the core type of guy. And then also what you see is his ability to sometimes go over the top of guys that make catches, so he can't. It ain't just like he has to be wide open for him to do it. You know, security see he

is a security linket. But when you need a guy to go make a play, hey, my guy is better than yours. He's shown this year that he is better than some of those guys and he can go up over the top of you in the red zone or like yesterday, Hey man, I got to concentrate this ball still going up in the air and I got to figure out the way to come down with it. That was a hell of a catch. The concentration that you need to make the catch like that in that type

of moment, it's huge. So I'm gonna say this, yeah, doctor, I don't know if you let them get out of here, because now what that got to find another report with the young guys. This is a Jason Wint and Tony Romo type of thing. But two point zero at this point of like, how you seeing this guy played for the last three yends. He's my fantasy tight end. Just so you know. Two he was the leading last night

leader to see two touchdown. This is a away game we ain't won, and thirty years with the blue jerseys on Doctors Show, showed up. All right, I'm just saying them beat him up, blues, but we're gonna call him it's to beat him up blues. It's what we went out there with. And who want to talk about? Major tunny and the commanders? Silence, silence, nobody want to nobody? Now you know what i'm talking about? You know what I'm talking like? Oh, exactly what I'm talking about. They

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I went through all last week, and I wanted to talk about Tampa a little bit, but I kept remind being reminded of you know how bad we were. I'm sorry. It's trauma. It's trauma. I was, I was trauma. I was trauma projected. That's the case for the rest of the week. If that's if that's how you want to move forward. On the players, and they mean you can't say nothing about Tampa when we're talking about San Francisco, I say what, I want to see what I'm saying

you're talking about, So we can't. We didn't talk about Larsonton. I didn't say that. I didn't say you couldn't talk about him. I said I was trauma projecting because last week all we did was talking about and all you're gonna talk about us with your commanders, the Red commanders, saying the Red commanders. Look, here's the thing. You got the victory in part because last night because of your

defense in the way that they played. We went all last week talking about what the hell we're gonna do at the cornerback position, But we gonna do at the cornerback position. I think a lot of your questions were answered through the play of Bland mcquomo and Xavier Roles. Now there was a little bit of a hiccup there with Xavier, but we got back on track. But you guys, as being secondary guys, what were your impressions of the secondary and the job that they did last night? I

thought I thought they played well. Um, you know, I don't. And I love Dan Quinn, I love the defense. I love all that. I'm gonna say this. Tom Brady played like absolute garbage last night. Ye throws was all over the place. He wasn't making the right read, none of that was right. But for the way he played and then the guys we had out there, like Xavier Rose off the street, uh aquam. This This is what I

appreciated about his play. He was going to make them call the penalty because he was gonna grab whatever he could. But yeah, but but he was gonna make sure because the physical play. Hey man, Jerome Henderson used to tell us that make them throw it as a matter of fact, where gloves the same color as so you could get that little pool and they don't call that type of stuff. And he played physical with the guys and he did

his thing. So I was actually pleasantly surprised with the way that they played considering who they were going against with Mike Evans and Kyle Win and Tom Brady. So it's it's a positive. It's a positive. You gotta continue to get better roses the first time being out there. So yeah, but still you know they played well enough. Yea, they did to get the job done. And let me say this, man, I was with you at Rookie OTAs and we're just watching drills and you said, hey, man,

who is this number so and so? And is he mu cuomo? And he said, man, that no no helmet song on that. Hey, this guy right here. I could just tell by the way he moving that. Yeah, I'm just I don't know how there you saw that. But anyway, coach, Coach Church, Coach Church, what do you think about your prodigyn?

I was, like you said, I was how mcquamo since I seen him at that rookie min again, just the way he's able to move, And then they told me he was playing and safety and I'm like, oh man, you got hips like that, you got feet like that able to break. Man, it's gonna translate into a good

ball player. But I'm pleasantly surprised at how that that secondary played, um, you know, game playing wise, and what they did on the field, because I thought, for sure, I'm like, man, it ain't no way they're gonna risk playing up and press coverage on these receivers that they got when they you know, so many injuries out there. I'm like, there ain't no way and Tom Brady just gonna pick him apart. But how he sits back there. But that wasn't the case. Like you said, Mcquomwu digs Bland.

They were all extremely physical out there throwing that timing off between Mike Evans and Guy Winning Brady and all those guys, And what helped out a lot is the return of your boy. Your boy came to play the big briefcase Bzuoka part, whatever you want to call him. He affected the game in so many different ways, whether it was knocking down those short screen passes or getting after Brady pressure on them. But Brady last night, man, he got I was afraid to get hit like he

Guys were coming to his face. He's short arm and stuff. You saw the interception cursing the back of the end zone. Brady thought he was gonna had enough, but he was so scared about getting hit he kind of hunched over and through it and next thing you know, it was an interception. So kudos to the defense, dan Quinn's game playing. They played unbelievable football out there and they all to

the next round. Yeah, because I want to actually give Laden Vanderesha honorary Member of the Secondary because last night they had him in that Tampa two and he was getting the fact that we missed Layton vanderis that much. Let you know how valuable he is. And I'm going to keep continue to go back to this. There was a point in time but we thought Lady Vanderesha and Jaylen Smith was going to be the linebackers of the future. Here. Late vanders still here, Jaylen Smith is out there playing

in New York. So they still got it. They still the guys, and late Vanderas showed why he was missed and why it affected our defense so much by the way he played last night, because he did his thing. Man. And if you think, you think about what you're saying two years ago, if someone said that, they would say man, because that was the perception of him around here, Like man, you know, you didn't know what you had left in him,

especially after that rookie season that he had. I thought his I think so much about Layton Vanderesh is about getting guys lined up, assignment of things like that. Uh, he is the quarterback on defense. I know we talked about drunk curse and his imprint and what he has in the secondary, but Layton Vanderesh, you could tell the defense is completely different with him out there, especially from

a run standpoint. Now, I go back to what you said, that's the same guy that was out there with Tampa with it and the same guy that was out there with these other same guy, but him and Haskins, but it was something about having them back, and guys, this is you know, we talk about healthy scratches all the time. But when you guys saw that the healthy scratches from yesterday, did you not like Gallimore, bohannan uh Na, Sean Wright. I surprised me, Like, did any of that when you

was like, whoa? Did that take you back? Because I'm looking, We're doing the show and you know, during the show, we do our the pregame show, we do our you know, an active list, Yes, and they put it out there and you, like you said, Bohannah Gallimore, right, m Mullins. I mean, and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, I was surprised about the corners because you think, with all those injuries, you're gonna need all hands on deck. So I think it, all right, man, you gotta you gotta

shoot all your corners. Those two guys sitting out, I'm like, all right, But then you got Gallimore and both handa out there, and I'm just like, man, I'm about for a minute, Gallipo was gonna be that guy, and I'm like, it's gonna like he may not even be on the squad next year. I mean, if it goes to show you that anything that happened. I mean, as far as you know, you could be up one time and down another time. And I just want to know what what

did the coaches see in that game playing? They were like, all right, those two guys ain't gonna affect it because you think you gotta have somebody in the middle to hold it down. But I guess the return of Haskins, I mean, um wat Carlos Watkins and Ghost and those guys must have you know, did something during that week to show them that they don't need those two guys, because I was surprised. I'll tell you what's what's happening. They were seeing Gallima get dug out of there, That's

what was happening. I mean, you were seeing ninety six get turned around block sideways. It was a lot of that. I mean it would show up on film, it'd be glaring. But then you you'd also see a guy like Chauncey Ghoston, who was in the act of a healthy scratch for a lot of the season and in situations come in and ball and came in and played like a guy that was trying to make the most of his opportunities and and you gotta credit dan Quinn with realizing, like, look,

this guy's I'm gonna rod the hot hand. I'm not gonna allow a guy to continue to fail me in the interior. You as soon as Hankins is healthy, you up, big fellow, And him and Carlos Watkins are two guys in the interior of this defense that I really believe allow for guys like Anthony Barr and Layton vander Est

to just flow freely. They are gonna need that so much this Sunday, that part of that part of their game is gonna be pivotal if the Dallas Cowboys are going to play for an NFC championship period at the end, because that's where I believe San Francisco, and I'm not even trying to transition to that. I'm just saying, I just know that that's the truth. You know, we're gonna have to play that much stronger in the inside. But getting back to a bright spot, it made me feel better.

The big briefcase stuff was so number eleven. Number eleven, he did his thing, spend moves all that. Yeah, he said he felt as healthy as he felt all season. It's play all time he showed up. I mean, guys, how do you go from looking like you could barely walk through it situations? Now all of a sudden, this man looked like he was playing with a whole other speed. Was he didn't look like that in Washington, but not

at all, And I was I was shocked. Like you said, I said, you Washington, mind, like, all right, he gonna they're gonna be double teaming. There's no way he's gonna be able to affect the game stats wise. I mean, he's just gonna be out there. And man, I just do like to have the wisdom at such a young young age as far as football is concerned, to go when they're all right, I'm not gonna get to the quarterback, you know this time. Let me get my hands up, let me let me affect the game in so many

different ways. And he wasn't able to do that. I mean, you see some of the greats out there there. You know, they may not get all the sacks this game, but they're affecting it somehow someway, whether it's pressures, battered down balls, turn over something, and you see it. I mean, he no matter what's going on, all you want to take me away from the quarterback by double teeming me, I'm gonna back these balls out. I'm gonna go ahead and strip somebody. This dude, Man, he showed up. He showed

up in a big way. Yeah, that's that and that's hell of a film study by him, Dan Quinn, and a defense to know that Chris Godwin is caught the most catch us behind the line of scriptments for receivers, so you already know that those screen passes are coming when you're rushing off the edge. So whatever sign, they got to be able to realize that, Hey man, I need to get my hands up for whenever time Brady's

trying to throw these short passes, shout out to them. Also, this man, Michael Parsons bro just the moves that you're able to see him like when you say, all right, he's gonna play edge this week, and he has to make sure that his the past moves. He has to grow, grow that a catalogue of what he can do. And every time you watch the game, he's able to do

something new. And Tampa Bay, shame on y'all for knowing that Michael Parsons is that great and what you don't want to do is let a guy like that get started. What are they doing the first drive? They don't even block him? Night n he ready n night. Now I'm here and then you know, for the rest of the game. Now you gotta deal with it because you ain't frustrating them at all. He know he's been coming here and Rex shop and he did. And I question, I'm like,

what strategy is that? Topos call him their prized possession? What do the cowboys want to do? All they want to do is get you in third down so they could unleastay prized possession. So you already know what he thinks about the guy, so you know, uh, they gotta be upset going back, going back to look at that field and say where did this thing start to go wrong? Get oh, that one right there, leave number eleven of the block. See how that's gonna go for you? What

what is it? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That was winning the stupid prize right there. But we're gonna take our last ranks. I'm gonna work on Bury Church all week. It's Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I got seventy two hours to try and get this man to flip his pick on Friday. Hurts you. Hurts you. You gotta make sure that he got some confidence in the kicker first. Yeah, buddy, that's true. Coming back players lounge after this. Nobody protects

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it to us again, Cowboy Nation. I'm telling you, I'm working on my man and right now he holding on where he's gonna go next Friday about for the Yeah, you know he hardhead makes soft behind your team hit it. That's all we did. That's all. That's it, that's it, That's what we needed right there. Baby. Let me think

I think we should all hope for that. And I don't think we should all hope for a New York Giants VIC three as well, because imagine us hosting, oh god, the NFC Championship game at too much for my heart too much for my heart. Keep our energy like like the team should we go keep our energy on San Francis. You know, but h Wilson be smacking. Shout out to him Donald, it was be cracking. I always wonder like how to dud be doing? Like, oh he do every time?

Don't even fall down every time. I don't know, Man, he got some different something, Man, it's something different than number six show the pad. Then from everybody else, but going into coming into last week when every all the talk was about Mike McCarthy, whether he's gonna having job if they lost, and blah blah blah and this and that, Mike McCarthy actually went into Monday night and did a hell of a coaching job. Hell of a coaching job.

I mean both of their coordinators. I mean, look on all facets of the game, these guys coached their butts off and I think maybe called Todd bows these guys in bad situations constantly and made them pay. What was your impression of Mike McCarthy and the job that he did, Man, I thought him and Keller Moore came with a very solid game playing minus the first drive, and I know

it happened. Sometimes you take a little risk or whatever you're doing three straight times in the first drive and went three and I was thirteen seconds and we came back and you realize, hey man, you gotta get back to the run. And that is great coaching. Hey man, if you come out and you think that this is gonna work, and it does, it, can we pivot and move on to something else and you get Tony Polin involved, start running boots, you get scholt involved, And that's the

most important thing. We always name those three guys. All right, you got Sholts on the roster, you got Ceedee Lamb on the roster, you got Zeke and Poller. Then the other guys get to touch the ball after that, right, And I think they did a good job of getting started with that. Then they got everybody involved. Caller, they got t Y Hilton, you got no Ah Brown involved. But it always starts with those guys. And I think they did a hell of a job of calling plays

last night against that defense. Uh and knowing what Todd bows was was giving them because they knew it, they read them like a damn book. You talk about Mike Evans saying that our defense is simple. Our offense was looking at said, hold on, we ain't gonna say nothing to the camera, but y'all simple was hell and he made them look that way. So shout out to them. Man,

hell of a job by all the coordinators. I know the kicker messed up, but that's the one thing I hate about special teams is that you can play great on coverage teams in return units and the kicker messes up. And what does everybody say? It ain't true. It's not true. So outside of the KI, our special teams did what they needed to do. And shout out to mccarthur because

he's the guy. It all starts with him. Yeah, I'm gonna definitely say he did a hell of a job as far as you know, the game playing and all that good stuff. But to me, what stood out the most was, you know, getting his team preparing for this game. I mean, because if you look at it last week against Washington, they weren't ready to play. And then McCarthy came out there, kudos to him in that post conference meeting after the after Washington game, he said, Hey, that

wasn't us. You know, we weren't ready. I didn't get my square ready to play. That wasn't us. You know next week will be a different team. And kudos to him because he's been doing it all year long, and you know that that's what they were waiting to see if this team came out flat the way that they came out and other instances, and they were ready to criticize and pounce on that. They were they were ready. And then if you look at it all year long,

what has this guy been able to do adversity? You lose your quarterback number one, you lose your Hall of Fame tackle out there, you lose your top two corners on the defensive side of the ball, and he's still making these guys come out and give it a hundred percent and they're always ready to play. I mean, we talked about it in years and that's one thing with my guy j Sometimes you know, we came out flat. Sometimes we came out flat and it hurt us in

the long run. But with McCarthy this season, last season for them, for the majority of the part, he's had his players ready to roll. And that's all you can ask for from your head coaches, making sure these players respond in the right way. And they were able to do that on Sunday or on Monday and come up with the victory, shout out the talisman. Goodness, gracious, we didn't we didn't bring them up. And you just talked about the old line and all that stuff. My man

goes from left left guard the left tackle. You don't miss a bean. Talk about being worth your pick in the first round. Man, They getting everything that they that they hope for out of talismanth and and I love what you're saying because what he does is he makes that transition or he makes that move, and you don't hear about So if we're not hearing about you, then

that means you're doing the right thing, all right. And it's so much of this, so much of this offensive line coming into Even though they rattled off those four victories before the Commanders, those weren't like victories where you ran away. You know, a lot of it was close, and you saw a lot of that continuity in the offensive line kind of changed, especially with Beyondi's going down him back and then Peter's going out and your rookie having to make that bump down from what out back

to left tackle. I think they look good, And I mean I had my questions at the beginning I'm like, what else kind of coffin wise, you know, And I guess obviously something doing that week told him that, look, we got a better chance with this five. This is the five that we weren't going to the playoffs with. And not to say that Peters did back, because he didn't.

He did a damn good job. But when when Smith went back over there, they had a lot more of that mobility that I think that they were missing on the other side with Terence still being out, that stretched run that they run on the outside. When you see t Smith get outside and get to the second level, Number seventy three got some will run. I mean fun. He's a big man, but a big man that's nimble, ain't got quick feet. It could get to the second

level and it's gotta be horrible. This guy's three thirteen six five right that. This is why lay got got paid. Yo got paid because what you would see him with Pool and he way down the field, say the best tackles were the best offensive line is in the game.

They are able to do that, get to the second level and they keeping up with the running backs, you know, So you know, and you're gonna need it this week because you're going up to get the best bows um and uh so it's it's it's a perfect time for our offensive line to find that cohesiveness and get a little confidence in the way that they played last night, because you're gonna need it going into this week real quick. Uh Brett money her, I'm gonna call him money mahr. Money.

Well this come on, let's let's let's let's let him brief money Brett money mahr. Because this guy, now it's our guy. Uh. He did something that hadn't been done in a long time. I think it's the thirties. They were saying, Yeah, this is a long time since someone has missed four pats in the playoff game. But he accomplished that in style. Style and the coach and I was thinking about the second one, like the third one.

I was like, all right, that's it, that's it. Kudos to the coach's staff, I guess for continuing to send him out there, you know, like we bought him out. We have to get this dude's confidence back because we don't, then we have to think about if he's gonna be on our team next week. And so shout out to him for doing it. And we acstlutely needed it. Man down that it blew the game over. No, it really, I mean fourth and four. You're talking about to touchdown

on fourth and four. I mean that's crazy. First of all, one, that's just like it takes some real jugs to do that. You know, fourth to four, you know you're basically giving that up, especially when the window closes like that. But he has to get fixed. My her has to get fixed because you can't. You can't go through the rest of the playoffs compromised that way. We know the margin

for error in the NFL is two three points. That's a kickoff, and no one had confidence that her can go out there but kick a fifty yard field though it's in his head now now I can't. I mean, how do you come on? We got we got to come on down, we got we got five days. He hint the last one, bro, that should get him a little bit. Last he got didn't get released last year, came back at got that out of his mind, and then it had one of his best seasons. All right,

I'm not I don't want to say so. We need to cut him to day and then bring it back Friday. We need to come on something and said, he took his medicine yesterday. He's the only he's the only game on TV, all right, only game on TV. How many people watching that, Cowboys? How many people he taking his medicine right now? All right? So I think you don't. You don't got to release him now if you're trying

to teach him a lesson. He knows Peyton Manning was on him lasting right, and he like everybody was on him, all right. So they got him back in there. He got a little bit of his companience back and said, oh man, I was going through something, but I finish him off with a dang kick and then went in all right, so they look at they won out a close game. He would have been back out there he pissed that thing. Oh yeah, yeah, now that would have been that had been do for that on that but

Red Red Mother, that'll be all she wrote. But I got seventy two hours Cowboy Nation, my man, BC. We're gonna work on him. I work on him on Twitter, sending them stats. We got to bring this man over to the other side because I already know d Max, just wolven Man, d Mac gonna pick the Cowboys man, it's purty miss p. I can't guarantee gonna do it like that. No, I'm not gonna lie to it by myself because I already know what new he gonna do. You already know knew he gonna come an I'm saying, yeah,

I didn't do that, knew I didn't matter. That was very But that's it, y'all. Wet, that's our that's our time. As Chris Bean listen to snow in the background, it's our time, and uh hang around for more. We got two o'clock tomorrow, y'all. Y'all perfect attendants all week. No, no, no, no, I won't be here on Thursday or Friday again. Yeah. So yeah, my perfect tends, my cray. I got responsibilities to my friends at this time. Yeah, you're gonna you're

gonna mail. You're gonna mail your picking. How you gonna do your pick? Bro? I got a phone. I can tell you that I'm not going to space perfect an tending this mccraig. You see how it's I got you though, done, I got you though. We'll be back. We'll be back tomorrow with more players lounge. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys Dot com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club